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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1959
Page
1
The C T begins a daily Lenten Prayer for Today series by Jim Bishop, author of The Day Christ Died, drawn from his book Go With God. The sequence runs through the Saturday before Easter, with prayers featured on the editor's page. A second new weekly series, This Week's Secretary, will appear on the Women’s Pages.
Columnist Joe Cowden notes Elyria can avoid yielding to other cities as Commissioner Michael J. Lotko Jr. enters the mayoral race. He comments on the high political energy in Elyria and the intensity of local competition.
A 35 year old Redfern Road resident and father of four was killed last night at 8 55 in a head on collision under the New York Central System overpass on Clinton Road Brooklyn
Robert Donnelly of Cleveland stock room foreman at Yoder Mfg. Co. dies in crash while two Westside residents Mr and Mrs George Howick sustain serious head and internal injuries. Donnelly survived by wife Helen two sons Arthur Patrick and two daughters Edythe Susan, and parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Donnelly and two brothers Edmund Harold. Visitation after 7 pm at McGorrey Bros Funeral Home Lakewood with funeral Tuesday at 9:30 am at St Mary Church.
A $150,000 blaze yesterday leveled the Gilger Theater, once a vaudeville and touring stock venue, at Monroe and Case Streets. Smoke hung over Norwalk for hours, visible as far east as Wakeman.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrived in Bonn to press common action by the West against Soviet threats to West Berlin, meeting Chancellor Konrad Adenauer who called for firm, united policy. Moscow denounced the trip as an effort to patch Western unity amid Berlin tensions. A separate report details a fire at the Gilger Theater where five workers escaped unharmed as rafters burned following a welding torch incident during remodeling.
Firefighters battled a major blaze in Norwalk last night after roofs ignited at the old theater and nearby structures. The building burned down to a mass of flames, with minor damage to adjacent rooftops and several volunteer units aiding from Perkins Township and Monroeville. Losses were estimated between 75,000 and 90,000 dollars for stock and furniture plus a 25,000 dollar building value. The blaze, the biggest since 1550, was extinguished by late night. In other news, Adenauer met with Dulles at Wahn Airport in Cologne to discuss governance amid Soviet pressure on Berlin, with plans for further talks during Dulles’s two-day visit.
Lorain County basketball coaches set quick pairings for the Class 4 tournament starting Friday at Clearview High Firelands and South Amherst. Top finishers in the Lorain County League earned automatic seeds with first round games featuring Columbia Avon Brookside LaGrange Ridgeville and South Amherst. Firelands earns a first round bye with Friday matchups Columbia versus Avon at 6 30 pm South Amherst versus Ridgeville at 7 45 and Brookside versus LaGrange at 9 pm.
The report mixes multiple items: a Smyrna man held on a bad check purchase, delayed scheduling of sectional play and a county tournament title clash, plus stray references to a Telegram Cheerleading Contest, a Paris Orly Airport update, and a school athletic director’s remarks.
In Washington Russians warn of U S jet reconnaissance capability after intercepts allegedly show Soviet pilots downing a U S transport last September. The report notes the State Department tape evidence and says the grand jury declined to indict Larry Lord Motherwell in a 4 year old infant death case, while missing travel companion Mrs. Pearl Putney remains unlocated.
Western diplomatic experts near completion of a tentative Allied note urging Russia to join a four power foreign ministers conference in spring on Berlin and European security. The draft aims to reject Russia’s Warsaw and Prague peace conference plan and to propose a Big Four ministers meeting with a formal framework for German unification and security.
A confusing police report notes a robbery at the Cherokee Cafe behind the station, with $100 in currency and $100 in silver seized. The fragment references local crime action and a surrounding context of classified ads in the Telegram Classifieds.
In Bergen Norway the Norwegian navy boarded and captured a Soviet fishing boat two miles inside Norway s fishing waters. The trawler offered no resistance and was taken to the western harbor of Aalesund. Legal experts predicted a about $2 000 fine and confiscation of the catch before release. The incident marks the first Soviet capture since 1956 and follows a renewed naval patrol amid a herring run.
A blinding snowstorm buried Oswego New York under 12 inches of snow stranding residents for the second time this winter. Snow plows and bulldozers fought huge drifts whipped by gale winds off Lake Ontario as the storm pushed Oswego past 160 inches for the season, eclipsing the 1925 26 record.
Nap Lajoie 82 a charter Hall of Fame member died at Halifax Hospital Daytona Beach. He was admitted last week after pneumonia and had been improving before a relapse due to his age. Spokesmen said complications led to his death.
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla The Air Force staged its first successful test firing of the Titan super missile a bullet shaped ICBM It traveled well over 200 miles in an arc reaching 50 miles high using only its first stage engines Officials hailed the test with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Thomas D White noting the Titan successfully accomplished the programmed objectives
The Titan booster released from its bolts and filled with water for a first stage propulsion test at the Denver plant. It is a 110 ton 90 foot ICBM with a potential range of 8000 miles and could power a manned rocket to the moon. The third attempt ended in engine malfunctions before liftoff.
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